The earth laughs in flowers

February 7, 2017

The popular quote “The earth laughs in flowers” is, I believe, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem Hamatreya. It's a beautiful phrase and I took the liberty of using it in the poem below.

‘The earth laughs in flowers’
Green shoots of snowbells grin,
Trusting against the frost
With optimistic fragility.

‘The earth laughs in flowers’
Abandoning herself in rain.
Generous in bloom,
Strewn across the desert.

‘The earth laughs in flowers.’
And dances with bees.
Courts with the grasses,
Smiles wood anemone amongst the trees.

Does she frown at the concrete
Or grimace at the oil?
Weep with the plastic
and the choke of litter?

Hamatreya can be found at the Poetry Foundation.

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